U.S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears for an interview with Bloomberg, to set the record straight. Bessent says Elon Musk and his DOGE government efficiency team are not “tinkering” with any federal payment data. He says the group does important work, and two of the DOGE analysts are Treasury Dept employees.
Secretary Bessent also talks about the strength of the US dollar, President Donald Trump’s agenda and meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and more. The remarks about DOGE are at the front of the interview. WATCH:
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The US Government gave the New York Times tens of millions of dollars over just the past 5 years despite paying relatively little money to the NYT in the years preceding 2021. For instance, in August 2024, the US government awarded $4.1 million to the NYT.
The bulk of the funds came from the US Department of Health and Human Services at $26.90m, followed by the National Science Foundation at $19.15m
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1887191056074350690
That post has an update…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The query the original poster ran is not limited to the recipient being the NYT, nor is it limited to the past 5 years.
usaspending.gov/search/?hash=d…
x.com/jmhorp/status/…
With the correct query, the $26.9m from HHS and the $19.15m from NSF no longer appear. The total to the NYT is ~$1.6m, mostly from $638k from DoD.
usaspending.gov/search/?hash=f…
Correct, accurate numbers matter. The correct number for what any news outlet ought to get from the government is zero. They ought to have to make it on their own. Whoever supplies the gold makes the rules.
Agreed, accurate numbers matter but any number over $0 is wrong.
time they pay it back or confiscate ALL their assets, drain not just the swamp, but also the POS commie, fascist, nazi liberal media….
I have seen enough sketchy reporting from stillgray that I question anything I see from him. Sorry I don’t have receipts, it appears that Destashjan has pointed to an info update.
The Federalist had a recent decent review with details on media outlets and taxpayer funding.
“Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop,” the sequel
Meanwhile, CNN is trying to discredit the DOGE whiz kids. Unfortunately for the dummies at CNN, they’re turning these kids into rock stars. HaHa
https://x.com/WarlordDilley/status/1887673999016054867/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1887673999016054867¤tTweetUser=WarlordDilley
I sense a certain bon Scott ac/dc song 😂
I really like Scott Bessent – Intelligence and personal manner are excellent.
Great cheekbones!!!
Maybe he’s part Native American? 🤣
Hmmm…Pocahontas’ cousin?
Bon Scott Bessent in Angus shorts–Rock on, Garth!
These newly-minted Puritanical school marms probably gushed over Cardi B’s “WAP”.
Hmmm, that X page no longer exists.
President Trump to Sign Executive Order Creating Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ Within Federal Government
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/06/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-creating-task-force-to-eradicate-anti-christian-bias-within-federal-government/
LOLZ!
Michigan Democrat Says She ‘Opted for Voluntary Sterilization’ Because of Trump Presidency
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/06/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-creating-task-force-to-eradicate-anti-christian-bias-within-federal-government/
Oh well at least she cant breed a bunch of lefty wokerati scum
A conscious self imposed Darwin Award.
Congratulations!!!
I’d like to say Thank You to her.
I’d also like to have this noted for any attempted adoptions.
She’s made it clear she can’t be a parent. We should honor that.
Sadly, this makes her free to focus on destroying much more than her own children.
If it’s true!
Bravo, Mr. Bessent, great job.. And inquiring idiot, FYI, it’s “President Trump,” thank you very much.
Andrew Torba, the owner of Gab, just posted that USAID was issuing grants to scrape and crawl their data.
I remember Sundance posting a while back that it happened here too. Bet that was on a grant as well!
https://gab.com/a/posts/113959481728393865
with all this waste they have found i better not here one word for the dems about how pdjt plans to pay for the biggest tax break in history for the middle class.
With the scrapping of DEI, does this mean that NASA is going to change it’s “we’re going to put the first black women on the moon!” fixation?
Oprah?
Big Mike.
Of course, a Black woman would make it to the moon. NASA has had Black female astronauts for decades now.
NASA isn’t segregated as it was in the 1960s.
Swamp creatures used the USAID to steal TaxPayer money.
USAID ‘Money Laundering’ allowed Democrat criminals to
steal TaxPayer money while hiding identity and information.
Highly likely its not going to be just Democrat criminals. By the time things are shaken out, there’s going to be GOP and Independent politicians getting cash kickbacks from various scam taxpayer funds.
Prosecute and sentence every single one of these racketeering mobsters.
They’re ALL in on it
A look at the NGO boards, executives, owners and their compensation would be enlightening. This could be how you go to DC a pauper and come away with millions.
Maybe, you vote to fund my NGO and I will vote for yours….
And you direct the NGO to finance a company you just happen to own stock in.
Like the Clintons did with all that Haiti relief money.
First USAID gets DOGED by Elon at bat,… and now the Marxist Media is fearing getting ICED by pitcher Donald J.
More Winning, please, Pres Trump,…I still have lots of popcorn here in the top of the First Inning of the Golden America Championship game.
“Play Ball!” 🍿⚾
Trump Admin Reopens Millions of Acres for Oil Drilling in Rollback of Biden Climate Agenda
Interior Secretary Burgum orders review of Biden’s oil lease cancellations
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-reopens-millions-of-acres-for-oil-drilling-rolls-back-biden-climate-agenda/
Great move!
This is sort of what SD wrote once:
“All of a sudden – Then like a brick through the window”
Which leads to this – “A custom introduced against reason
ought rather to be called an usurpation than a custom. Co. Litt. 113.
OMG…at the 14:00 mark.
Tariffs!!!!
PS I believe this is Bloomberg. Did I not see that name in USAID?
We remain unimpressed with the former Soros employee. He simply stated the obvious.
Their purpose is NOT to CHANGE the system. Just recommend improvements.
I remember the COBOL days … that’s an antiquated system.
Scott Bessent (62) is a hedge Fund manager, the founder of investment firm Key Square Capital Management. He also worked as the CIO at George Soros’s Soros Fund Management from 2011 to 2015. He lives in Charleston, S.C. . Bessent and his husband, former New York City prosecutor John Freeman, have two children.
We have normalized homosexuality too … not a good move …
God wasn’t impressed with Sodom and Gomorrah …
Carry on!
Scott’s claim to fame?
He [Bessent] also worked for George Soros, a major supporter of Democrats. Bessent had an influential role in Soros’ London operations, including his famous 1992 bet against the pound, which generated huge profits on “Black Wednesday,” when the pound was de-linked from European currencies.
Ugh
Sundance, did you know about ^^^THAT^^^?
o.0
Scott Bessent…
a current member of The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
roster….
https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster
“We have normalized homosexuality too … not a good move …
God wasn’t impressed with Sodom and Gomorrah …
Carry on!”
Thanks Ned!
And yes. I mean it. 👊✝️👊
God will not be mocked.
And for the Treasury Secretary to say that the Treasury Dept is powerless against the Federal Reserve is treasonous.
Such blather implies that The People’s sovereignty can somehow be usurped through indentured servitude.
We The People are the Federal Reserve.
The $$ belongs to The People, not some bank.
I wholeheartedly contend that anyone who voluntarily gives one red cent of their income to the Federal Government is a traitor to The United States Of America.
Trust God.
Fear not.
Her questions sound like a Democrat talking points memo. The lies they spread through Fake news is pure evil.
The talking points are in the same envelope with the check from USAID
Her assignment was to impugn DOGE, but she failed.
She forgot to mention how USAID helps underwrite her own paycheck.
“We make a billion dollars a day working from home–ask us how!”
It is very easy for President to silence the Left on their DOGE concerns. Grant top level security clearances to every one of them (including Musk) and make them defacto employees of any agency that they investigate.
The young men have security clearances already done.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Talk about a DEI hire. I don’t think she actually understands how the macro markets work or comprehends what Secretary Bessent is saying. I think she’s just parroting questions that a Bloomberg economist provided to her with obvious & elementary followups. He was being nice but could’ve taken her to task at any point in this interview & challenged her to clearly reveal her fundamental lack of knowledge on the subject matter. What a charlatan she is.
Q: How do you know a politician is lying?
A: His mouth is moving.
A: he’s breathing!
Speaking of Treasury and DOGE, I found this excerpt on CITIZEN FREE PRESS that touches on both:
“In Treasury’s basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.
This wasn’t a hack. This wasn’t a breach. This was authorized disruption.
While bureaucrats prepared orientation packets and welcome memos, DOGE’s team was already deep inside the payment systems. No committees. No approvals. No red tape. Just four coders with unprecedented access and algorithms ready to run. That trail led to staggering discoveries. Programs marked as independent had coordinated funding streams. Grants labeled as humanitarian aid showed curious detours through complex networks. Black budgets once shrouded in secrecy began to unravel.”
I recommend reading the whole piece. Here’s the link: https://eko.substack.com/p/override
Thank you so much for your post. That linked article is one of the most uplifting articles I have read.
EVERYONE here should take the 5 minutes or so to read it. Guaranteed to uplift your spirits.
Thank you again.
Sundance, have you read it?
Article has a lot of embellishments, beware. I would love for it to be 100%
We’ll have to wait and see. Based on other things I’ve read I assume it’s legit but my presumption comes later.
It’s an amazing piece, isn’t it? Whoever wrote it was there at the scene and is not only a trained journalist, (I used to teach journalism), but a high degree techie. If it’s all legit this is a game-changer!
Hope these young ones have a seriously good security detail. There are trillions at stake.
Too late, the cat is out of the bag now.
I have hope that he will be a vast improvement over that last dope.
Little wonder that Hillary Clinton raged at Musk’s Wiz Kids:
‘Wow’: Elon Musk stunned at discovery of Chelsea Clinton receiving $84 million in taxpayer funding
https://tjvnews.com/2025/02/wow-elon-musk-stunned-at-discovery-of-chelsea-clinton-receiving-84-million-in-taxpayer-funding/
Contrast Bessent setting the record straight with well known to this community Mark Warner’s grandstanding during the recent debanking senate committee hearing:
Not exactly a mystery why Warner doesn’t want capital flows to be exposed.
the corrupt Democrat party are such hypocrites about everything,
instead get things done for country before themselves,
What amazes me most is that those screeching haven’t wised up to the fact that these DOGE crawlers / spiders are exactly what the DS has unleashed on the internet at large. These people developed these talents somewhere.
Who is Catherine Austin Fitts?
President Musk? A coup? She seems either loopy, misguided or dangerous.
Trump Administration: Digital Control Grid Coming Together at High Speed
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Solari Report
Interview indicates Treasury cannot ‘stop’ payments, but they can alert ‘the powers that be’ that agency X has asked Treasury to pay….and stop the payment at the source.
Quite a difference compared to the JoBama corruption model.
Nothing like a financial audit.. Every company worth anything will audit their books, that how people get caught in embezzlement schemes..
This is a move to stop Musk and DOGE, but it is not necessary to use DOGE. U.S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a Trump appointee, he can hire people that can use whatever software DOGE uses , and can internally do the same audits. DOGE can easily change into a software supplier for any agency run by a Trump appointee. This will not slow down the reform.